Morning on the deck

It has been a minute!
With a deck temperature of 60 (15c) degrees, I decided that it would be a good morning to enjoy coffee on the deck today.

I slept a little later than normal.I guess a couple of hours of yard work is enough to wear me out this early in the season. It's okay, though. It feels good to be outside and getting a jump on the gardening. With pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training camps it will be planting season before you know it!

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I haven't been a big follower of Olympic sports for quite some time. I do like the stories of many of the athletes that are competing, more than I like the actual competition.
I like the US athletes that proudly represent a USA that embraces the spirit of the Olympics and honors everybody. 
I am proud of their boldness to speak up and say that they represent a USA that stands up for one another and shows love and compassion for our neighbors.

It is disgusting that there are people that criticize their comments. Even though they haven't said anything negative about the president (lower case p intentional) or the current administration, supporters of the president are lashing out at them for their comments. 
Seriously, WTF?

I have purposefully kept Out of My Hat out of politics for quite some time. I honestly don't believe I have many conservatives that follow me anymore, certainly not many Trump cultists. I do recognize that you can be conservative and not be in favor of this administration's policies and tactics, but if that is you then you have a responsibility to say something as well -- compliance is complicity.

Let's face it -- 
In the USA due process is a right of every person -- citizen and non-citizen alike.
That is not what we have been seeing. 
For decades the right has been saying that the Democrats are coming for your guns, but now it is the current administration that is talking about limiting access and rights to carry. If the right to bear arms is supposed to be to protect ourselves from government tyranny, you 2A m'fers are now a part of the tyranny rather than the protectors.

smh

I keep thinking that surely they will wake up and see the constitutional violations that are happening. Unfortunately, I think we have moved beyond the point of no return. If they haven't seen it by now, they never will. 
Let me say it again -- You can be a conservative and see that what is happening is un-American. Supporting what you know to be a violation of the Constitution isn't patriotism. You are a part of the fascist regime.
Wake up!

Our Olympic athletes make me proud.
Our current government --- not so much.

John